The Times newspaper has an article now online listing what they call the “Top 50 People of the Decade.” Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is among those listed in the top ten (US President Barack Obama holds the number one spot). You can now see a high res scan here. Of our favorite author, the newspaper states:

6 J.K. ROWLING Author and philanthropist

Although the Boy Wizard first appeared in the late Nineties, it was in the
Noughties that J.K. Rowling became a Muggle of international renown, when
the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
was released as a film in 2001. By the time the seventh and final book, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows, appeared, Rowling had sold 400 million
books in 67 languages. Child readers became teenagers along with Harry, Ron
and Hermione.